Football analytics - Topics

How does inflation change the ranking of the Premier League's most expensive signings? How clubs use analytics to find cheap players in smaller leagues Can a spreadsheet predict which academy players will make it? Why recruitment models and scouts so often disagree about the same player Do betting markets predict results better than pundits? Is the on-screen xG graphic during a Premier League broadcast worth trusting? How much can one football match's numbers mislead you about a whole season? The limits of xG: why some strikers beat the model for years A keeper's save percentage says more about the defence in front of him than about him. Defensive metrics are still weaker than attacking ones and here is why Do football managers still pick the team or has that moved to the analyst? Why some managers still ignore the data department Why do left-footed footballers get scouted so eagerly? Tracking data against event data: what each one can and cannot tell you Who builds the models inside a football club and who is allowed to see them? Player tracking systems and the GPS vests that feed the analytics department Set-piece analytics and the marginal gains nobody wants to talk about What is expected goals and why do two xG models disagree about the same shot? What does expected goals actually measure in a football match? What the chip inside the ball actually measures and what it cannot tell you What counts as a good number of shots on target for a football team? What a tracking system costs a mid-table club each season How a club analyst turns tracking data into a team talk Why counter-attacking sides are happy to let the opponent have 70 percent of the ball Do modern players break records faster simply because they play more games?